Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: When langour and disease invade
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 391
Page Number: 192, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHEN languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond our pains,
And long to soar away.
Sweet to look outward and attend
His promises of love;
Sweet to look upward to the place,
Where Jesus reigns above.
Sweet to look back and know our names
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward and behold
Eternal joys our own.
Sweet to reflect how grace divine
Our sins on Jesus laid;
Sweet to remember that his blood,
Our debt of suffering paid.
Sweet in his faithfulness to rest,
Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his holy covenant,
For all things to depend.
Sweet in the confidence of faith
To trust his holy word;
Sweet to recline upon his arms,
And know that he's the Lord.
If such the sweetness of the stream,
What must the fountain be,
Whence saints and angels draw this bliss
Through all eternity.
O, may we ever live while here,
To glorify thy name;
Till in thy courts we all appear,
Before thee and the Lamb.